ALEXANDER
MARIA
WAGNER
Composer | Pianist
ALEXANDER
MARIA
WAGNER
Composer | Pianist
“He dares to step into the air – and it carries. How can one describe this music which captivates from the first moment? There is something compelling about his music. Not structurally compelling or dogged, but compellingly following the strange paths of deeply felt poetry.”
www.kultur-port.de, Hans-Jürgen Fink
AMW
TYXart | 2024
TYXart | 2017
OEHMS CLASSICS | 2013
ALEXANDER MARIA WAGNER
KÄFER TÖTEN
Graham F. Valentine & Ensemble
In Alexander M. Wagner’s cycle KÄFER TÖTEN, man’s “inner child” is caught up in a carousel of urges and illusions. The composer impressively builds a phantasmagorical rainbow through the underworld of the psyche.
The Scottish actor Graham Forbes Valentine lends schizophrenic faces to the ambiguous states of mind in the work. His lyrical, morbid voice, both menacing and tender, makes him one of the most original voice artists of our time. Of fear, greed, sadness, lust and delusion – a roundelay of lost memories of a world suspended between dream and reality.
ALEXANDER MARIA WAGNER
KÄFER TÖTEN
Graham F. Valentine & Ensemble
In Alexander M. Wagner’s cycle KÄFER TÖTEN, man’s “inner child” is caught up in a carousel of urges and illusions. The composer impressively builds a phantasmagorical rainbow through the underworld of the psyche.
The Scottish actor Graham Forbes Valentine lends schizophrenic faces to the ambiguous states of mind in the work. His lyrical, morbid voice, both menacing and tender, makes him one of the most original voice artists of our time. Of fear, greed, sadness, lust and delusion – a roundelay of lost memories of a world suspended between dream and reality.
CONCERTS
“[He] amazes from the first to the last bars with the undisguised directness of the playing and the clear, self-assured decisiveness of the statement.”
“…grabs hold with tremendous power and temperament, shapes excitingly ‘finished’ and striking, masters the many pianistic and musical hurdles with an overrunning bravura, as if they did not exist at all.”
Fono Forum, Ingo Harden